Development of teleoperated landmine detection buggy GRYPHON for practical humanitarian demining tasks

Abstract

Millions of anti-personnel mines (AP-mines, for short) have been laid in many parts of the world in wartime without considering their posterior safe removal. Not only AP-mines, but almost all sorts of unexploded ordnance (UXO) that remain buried in the ground, do not loose the potential to blast even long after war and conflicts are over, and kill or main thousands of people every year. Most of the victims of these explosive remnants of the war are not the military, none the deminers, but innocent civilians. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.